What's the difference between hack and jack?

Hack


Definition:

  • (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
  • (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
  • (v. t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
  • (v. i.) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
  • (n.) A notch; a cut.
  • (n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
  • (n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
  • (n.) A kick on the shins.
  • (n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
  • (n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
  • (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
  • (n.) A procuress.
  • (a.) Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
  • (v. t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
  • (v. t.) To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
  • (v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
  • (v. i.) To live the life of a drudge or hack.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
  • (2) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
  • (3) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
  • (4) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
  • (5) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
  • (6) The US started down this course during the Sony hack last year, and in this case, transparency might be the best deterrent in the future – which, by the way, is something both Snowden and the Snowden-hating national security blog Lawfare argued on Monday.
  • (7) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (8) The remarks are the most direct official response on the issue, although the government has previously said that it "resolutely opposes" hacking and criticised "baseless" claims.
  • (9) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
  • (10) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
  • (11) Jowell said she was first told that her phone had been hacked "on 28 or 29 occasions" by the police in May 2006.
  • (12) The two men ran Rigby down in a car before hacking him to death in the street near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London .
  • (13) The promotion would come as News Corp continues to face legal investigations into the phone-hacking scandal on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (14) OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach at US federal agency Read more The full scale of the information the attackers accessed remains unknown but could include highly sensitive data such as medical records, employment files and financial details, as well as information on security clearances and more.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark Karpeles, president of Mt Gox bitcoin exchange, bows his head during a press conference in Tokyo after a $400m hack.
  • (16) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
  • (17) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
  • (18) That police sources were making such claims was confirmed by Taylor's solicitor, who told MPs that a named police sergeant had told him that 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked into.
  • (19) He said Coulson quite clearly knew hacking was a breach of the Press Complaints Commission code and there might be privacy issues, but never knew it was a crime.
  • (20) The regulator said it did not find the evidence provided a basis to conclude Rupert Murdoch had acted in a way that was inappropriate in relation to phone hacking, concealment or corruption by employees.

Jack


Definition:

  • (n.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow.
  • (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
  • (n.) An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.
  • (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
  • (n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack
  • (n.) A device to pull off boots.
  • (n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
  • (n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
  • (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
  • (n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
  • (n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
  • (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
  • (n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
  • (n.) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
  • (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
  • (n.) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
  • (n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.
  • (n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
  • (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
  • (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
  • (n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
  • (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.
  • (n.) The jurel.
  • (n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.
  • (n.) The wall-eyed pike.
  • (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.
  • (n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
  • (n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
  • (n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.
  • (n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
  • (n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
  • (v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
  • (v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A remarkably close relationship was found between both H. pylori urease subunits and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease, the subunit of which is a single 840 amino acid polypeptide.
  • (2) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
  • (3) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
  • (4) precursor phaseolin) is incubated with jack bean alpha-mannosidase show that the high mannose glycan on Asn252, but not the one on Asn341, is susceptible to enzyme degradation.
  • (5) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
  • (6) 9.31am BST Jack Straw , the Labour former home secretary, was on the Today programme earlier talking about the "plebgate" affair.
  • (7) This communication reviews the almost 40 years of studies by Jack Metcoff, MD, and coworkers to unravel the causes of fetal malnutrition and their efforts to prevent it.
  • (8) "Most of the grain produced on our farm ends up bound for export," said Jack McCormick, who raises beef cattle and grain with his father.
  • (9) Jack Straw's detailed blueprint for a 300- strong, wholly elected upper chamber to replace the Lords appears to have been blocked at the last minute following resistance in cabinet.
  • (10) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
  • (11) The manager added that City would also be without Kolo Touré, Abdul Razak and Jack Rodwell, who has a hamstring problem.
  • (12) Comment is free contributor Jack Monroe made the Guardian shortlist and got one commenter's You Tell Us award for Outstanding Excellence in the field of Talking Sense .
  • (13) The link between the conditions has not yet been discovered, but here Jack Wall and colleagues develop the theory that an autoimmune response to a 64 kDa antigen expressed on both thyroid and eye muscle membranes is responsible for this thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.
  • (14) Fellow co-founder Jack Dorsey could make around half that.
  • (15) Other high-profile absentees include Danny Welbeck, Jack Wilshere, Luke Shaw and Jordan Henderson.
  • (16) Onerous new regulations could threaten the shale energy revolution, America’s role as a global energy superpower, and the dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions made possible by an abundant and affordable domestic supply of clean-burning natural gas,” Jack Gerrard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement.
  • (17) The American has not secured a major title since Torrey Pines for the 2008 US Open and, while overhauling Jack Nicklaus's record total of 18 majors was once a matter of "when", it is now very much a case of "if".
  • (18) By N-terminal analysis, the 29.5-kDa subunit of H. pylori urease was found to share significant amino acid sequence similarity with the smallest of three subunits of the Proteus mirabilis and Morganella morganii ureases, as well as to the amino terminus of the unique jack bean subunit.
  • (19) Outside-funded overseas travel was also declared, including a visit to the Paris Air show for the Tory MP Jack Lopresti and his researcher, paid for by the global missile company MBDA.
  • (20) Even Jack Straw is trying to close down some of its overripe practices.